Idris Murphy: Incantation
Mitchell Fine Art presents Incantation, a major exhibition by one of Australia’s leading contemporary landscape artists, Idris Murphy. The exhibition brings together two significant bodies of work: a rare collection of previously unseen dioramas alongside a new series of paintings inspired by the Australian outback. Combining three-dimensional works with expansive,…
Pep Talks: Yuriyal Bridgeman
Join Griffith University Art Museum for a Pep Talk with Yuriyal Bridgeman, following his inclusion in the 18th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale in France. The event begins with a free BBQ in the QCAD Courtyard from 4:30–5:30pm, followed by an artist talk and Q&A from 5:30–7:00pm at Griffith University Art…
Trade Practice
Trade Practice examines the divergent creative lineage of labour through the shared history of blue-collar work. Daniel Wallwork, Jack Rodgers and Matthew Rees draw on techniques and experiences from signwriting, automotive spray painting and commercial trades, integrating these practices into their artistic processes. Their work includes unsettling, metallic-sheened creatures, abstracted…
Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes: (In)Sight
Part of NIGHT MOVES, exploring what we keep hidden in our darkest corners. (In)Sight is an immersive installation by Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes that explores perception, representation and the relationship between seeing and being seen. Mirrors fracture perspective, screens shift with changing images, and handmade objects create…
Jessica Dorizac: Dahan-Dahan (Tread Lightly)
Beginning with a residency in Lucban, Philippines, this project develops a large-scale installation inspired by the Pahiyas Festival. Through community collaboration and traditional kiping-making, the work explores intergenerational knowledge, ritual and material culture, creating an immersive environment reflecting the fragility and resilience of cultural memory. Jessica Dorizac is an artist…
ALONG THE WAY
Your Pals presents Along the Way, an analogue photography exhibition featuring the work of 20 artists. The exhibition brings together photographs captured during three photo walks, each shaped by a different prompt and location. Every artist has selected five photographs from each walk, resulting in a total of 300 images…
Adam Pyett: Stories of daylight
Stories of daylight presents a new body of landscape paintings by Adam Pyett, developed through his long-term engagement with the Macedon Ranges in Victoria. Pyett’s paintings explore how landscapes are experienced through repetition, memory and changing light. Working from drawings made on site, he develops his paintings later in the…
MADE 2026: Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium
MADE 2026 is artisan’s inaugural Queensland Craft and Design Sector Symposium, bringing makers, designers, arts organisations and sector leaders together to discuss the future of contemporary craft and design in Australia. The program explores the priorities, partnerships and actions needed to strengthen the sector, with discussions around visibility, skills, access…
Baylee Griffin: The Space Here
Onespace invites you to an exhibition of ceramics by Baylee Griffin, The Space Here, in the Lounge Gallery. Based between Bidjara lands (Charleville) and Dharawal lands (Wollongong), Griffin’s ceramic practice is grounded in resilience, reciprocity and an embodied eco-centric philosophy. Working with locally sourced materials, Griffin explores the interconnected relationships…
Pat Hoffie: Party Gone Bad
FireWorks Gallery presents Party Gone Bad, a new exhibition of large-scale paintings by acclaimed Australian artist Pat Hoffie. Bringing together works produced between late 2025 and 2026, the exhibition responds to the anxieties, fractures and absurdities of contemporary life, including the challenges of free speech and the online “Hateosphere”. Hoffie’s…
KONSTANTINA: Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan
Onespace presents Wumera Nangamay: Muru Walan, a new exhibition by Brisbane-based artist KONSTANTINA exploring the ancient Muru (path or journey) connecting her Gadigal ancestors in the Sydney region with the Arabanoo peoples of the central desert. Drawn to the enduring beauty and significance of Kati Thanda, KONSTANTINA’s richly layered paintings…
Charmaine Davis: Jugun – Country
As part of the prize for winning the First Nations Artist Award at the 2025 Queensland Regional Art Awards, Charmaine Davis presents Jugun – Country, a solo exhibition at Flying Arts. A proud Goori woman with connections to the Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung Nations, Davis draws deeply on the landscapes and…
Lisa Ray: Alter
Alter is a solo exhibition by Brisbane-based photographer Lisa Ray, presented at Jan Manton Gallery in Teneriffe. Working across flowers, portraiture and elemental forms, Ray explores moments suspended between dissolution and emergence. Light resembles fire, water becomes atmosphere, and organic forms drift between the familiar and imagined. Created through a…
Jenna Catchpole: Her Flame, My Hands
Her Flame, My Hands A daughter’s journey through grief, growth and clay Her Flame, My Hands is an annual solo exhibition by Brisbane/Meanjin ceramic artist Jenna Catchpole, presented each September in honour of her mother, Jennene – a gifted potter whose love of clay continues to shape Jenna’s practice today.…
Diverse Perspectives
Diverse Perspectives brings together twelve photographers from the Fine Monochrome Print Group in a celebration of contemporary monochrome photography. Rather than following a single theme, the exhibition presents twelve distinct approaches to photographic practice, exploring subjects including personal narratives, landscape, architecture, abstraction and the human form. Together, the works consider…
Rachel South: Beautifully Tangled
Rachel South presents Beautifully Tangled, a solo exhibition exploring the intimate and emotional qualities of hair through highly detailed, large-format paintings. Drawing on her connection to nature and the Australian landscape, South transforms strands, coils and textures of hair into expansive, almost landscape-like forms. Opening Night – Thursday 3rd at…
Cassandra Louttit: Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year
Cassandra Louttit presents her second solo exhibition, Big Blue/Rothko Worship Current Year, at Wreckers Artspace in Woolloongabba. The exhibition centres on a painting and series of paintings shown in full for the first time, alongside new work. Louttit will also present an artist talk exploring the arcane technical processes behind…
Tim Price: The moon's raining
Jan Murphy Gallery is delighted to present The moon’s raining, an online exhibition by Tim Price. “I’ve been painting everyday things from around the city. Ordinary moments drift into view while I’m walking, a plane flying in over the buildings and trees, flowers growing in the suburbs. They feel meaningful…
Self Portraits
A group exhibition exploring the many ways artists can approach the idea of the self. Self Portraits brings together 26 artists working across contemporary painting and visual art, presenting distinct interpretations of identity, perception and personal experience. Featuring James Drinkwater, Vipoo Srivilasa, Cosima Scales, Eliza Gosse, Sally Anderson, Stefan Dunlop,…
Inscribing a life
‘Inscribing a life’ brings artworks from across the QAGOMA Collection that register existence, histories, and time through the act of mark making. From the brute force recorded in paint on a canvas that expresses strength and vitality, to the time commitment captured in the repetition involved in making intricate forms,…
FIRE! Works on Paper
FIRE! Works on Paper 2 Queensland brings together works by seven artists exploring the breadth and diversity of contemporary works on paper. Featuring David Paulson, Ian Waldron, Jo-Anne Driessens, Juno Gemes, Michael Aird, Paul Bong and Vincent Serico, the exhibition presents drawing, photography and print-based works that engage with people,…
Annabelle Reidy: the boat I row
Reflective in a self-effacing way, it is a beautifully crafted memoir which invites us to share a healing process made possible through exploring with an analogue camera and notebook in hand. There is an ethereal dimension to Reidy’s photography — as if her work were from another time. Some of…
Zoe Young
Sydney-born artist Zoe Young (b. 1978) explores still life, portraiture and abstraction, transforming everyday settings and objects into idyllic and evocative scenes. Drawing on a childhood shaped by travel, different cultures and her family’s history in hospitality, Young creates compositions that evoke nostalgia while connecting personal memories with broader human…
Choral Cthonics
A hum in the dark. Presented by Metro Arts and Brisbane Festival, Choral Cthonics is a world-premiere exhibition exploring the voice as instrument, threshold and collective force. Bringing together work by Dean Ansell, Cicadas (Maria Molina & Celeste Ricci), CAConrad, Léuli Eshrāghi, Mikhail Karikis, Jazz Money and Tina Stefanou, the…
West Space Window
West Space is inviting applications for its 2027 West Space Window program, supporting artists to present work in its micro-project space on the public façade of the gallery in Collingwood Yards. The Window is a small, site-specific project space on the balcony outside West Space’s gallery and office in the…
Nana Kawamura: Golden Scars
Golden Scars explores the relationship between the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy of self-overcoming. Kawamura reflects on repairing what has been broken and transforming past inner conflict into a source of resilience and strength. The exhibition considers how accepting our imperfections and experiences can become an act…
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah: Undying
Griffith University Art Museum presents Undying, a major solo exhibition by acclaimed Australian sculptor Abdul-Rahman Abdullah. Commissioned by the Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, the exhibition brings together intricately carved and painted sculptures exploring humanity’s relationship with life, death, the afterlife and the natural world. Inspired by…
Ties that Bind
Ties that Bind brings together leading Australian artists to explore the many ways people connect to home, Country, memory and one another. Through diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition considers belonging as something shaped by place, ancestry, migration, displacement and lived experience. Rather than presenting a single idea of home, the…
The Red Dress
The Red Dress brings together the work of 380 embroiderers from 51 countries in a remarkable 14-year global collaboration conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod. Created between 2009 and 2023, the dress features 87 panels of burgundy silk dupion and an estimated 1–1.5 billion stitches. Contributions from women, men and…
artisan: UNLEASHED+
UNLEASHED+ 2026 is a major exhibition celebrating Queensland’s emerging craft and design practitioners, presented by artisan in collaboration with HOTA, Home of the Arts. For more than two decades, UNLEASHED has provided an important platform for early-career makers and designers, connecting emerging practitioners with national curators, collectors and industry professionals.…
Sha Sawari: liminal
برزخ liminal brings together the English word “liminal” with the Farsi term برزخ (barzakh), a concept that evokes a state of suspension – a threshold between death and resurrection, presence and disappearance. While the two terms resonate with one another, they are not fully interchangeable; each carries its own cultural and philosophical…
Sandra Selig: Figure of 8
Milani Gallery presents Figure of 8, a solo exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Sandra Selig. The exhibition features a new body of work spanning reverse pendulum textiles, paintings on cork, sculpture, and a charcoal wall drawing, continuing Selig’s exploration of materiality, movement and spatial relationships. Closing Event: Saturday…
Coral Futures
Coral Futures brings together poetic and speculative responses to coral by First Nations and contemporary Australian artists. The exhibition explores coral’s vital role in marine ecosystems, particularly the Great Barrier Reef, while considering its wider cultural, economic and environmental significance. Responding to the increasing threats posed by climate change, including…
Judy Watson: kau-in kau-in blood blood
kau-in kau-in blood blood presents recently acquired and existing works from the City of Moreton Bay Art Collection by renowned multidisciplinary artist Judy Watson. Working across textile, video and printmaking, Watson draws attention to underrepresented histories of Australia and the enduring presence of First Nations people and culture. Connected to…
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland
Inhabited: Anthromes of Queensland explores the ways people and wildlife coexist within human-altered environments. Through cyanotype photogram collages combining wildlife remnants and human-made objects, LeAnne Vincent uncovers hidden stories embedded within Queensland’s urban spaces. The exhibition invites audiences to consider their relationship with place and reflect on the ways human…
Jason Fitzgerald: Unearthed
Jason Fitzgerald’s Unearthed presents a series of glazed stoneware sculptures that occupy the space between archaeological artefact, architectural fragment and imagined object. Appearing as though excavated from an uncertain past, the works explore ideas of ruin, displacement, memory and transformation. Fitzgerald’s forms suggest objects that were once whole but have…
C A B A L
3rd - 16th March
Jugglers Artspace
C A B A L is a group of artists united in the creation of art driven from the urban perspective, distilled in the outer zone and tempered by the inner storm. This show will…
Michael Cook: Invasion
21st February - 31st March
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
I NVASION As a small boy [Woorrady1] had been transfixed by the sight of the French ships floating in from the ocean, and disgorging onto the land strange creatures just like the returned dead who…
Grania Kelly: Ground Truth
21st - 25th March
Foyer of ABC Brisbane
Ground Truth – Fire, Flood and Human Endeavour, is inspired by the science of remote sensing: using data from satellites, airborne sensors and ground-based platforms to map and monitor vast landscapes and how they change over…
Eugene Carchesio: The No-Between and the Ventriloquist / Collaborations
17th February - 10th March
Milani Gallery
Since the early 1980s Carchesio has built a reputation for producing small-scale watercolours and minute sculpture. Playing with geometric patterns and figurative symbolism, through his subtle images Carchesio attempts to create an ontological space emptied…
Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between
9th - 11th March
Dendy Cinemas
A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist in Brazil. Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil, in search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, experiencing sacred rituals and revealing her creative process. The route is comprised of poignant…
Kenji Uranish: So far, yet so near
21st February - 31st March
Andrew Baker Art Dealer
Kenji Uranishi is a Japanese-born, Australian-based artist whose work draws upon the longstanding traditions of ceramics in Japanese art and culture. Kenji studied at the Nara College of Fine Arts and upon graduation, worked mostly…
Ann Maree Clark: Life, with Measure
2nd March - 1st April
Lethbridge Gallery Bulimba
Painting and drawing from life, Ann Maree incorporates a contemporary aesthetic with a naturalists approach to realism and classically structured compositions. Conceptually she has an interest in classical philosophy, particularly the classical ‘transendentals’ – truth, beauty, goodness…
Michael Simms: Temporal
2nd March - 1st April
Lethbridge Gallery Bulimba
Figurative artist Michael simms was awarded the Cambridge Studio Gallery Portrait Prize, as well as the Cliftons Sydney Art Prize and the Cliftons People’s Choice Award. He has been a finalist in several major art…
Julie Rees: A Series of Predicted Events and Peculiar Statements
5th -31st March
Artworld Studio Gallery
Conceptually driven, A Series of Predicted Events and Peculiar Statements (2017), draws inspiration from cassette and digital recordings of psychic readings held between 1993 and 2013. The works in this series offer allegorical interpretations of accurate predictions…
Leigh Schoenheimer: Iterate | Elaborate
7th - 29th March
ONESPACE Gallery
Leigh Schoenheimer lives and works in Brisbane and is a former long-term art educator. Iterate I Elaborate completes a trifecta of exhibitions on her current theme of interrogating ‘representation’ – the two prior shows being held at…
Madeleine Stack : Future Skinned
21st February - 10th March
Metro Arts
The thing was that, not for the first time, I was away from someone I wanted to be with. The difference this time was that my feeling was not always that I wanted to be…
Paul Ryan: The Colonies, South By Southeast
22nd February - 16th March
Edwina Corlette Gallery
Paul Ryan knows how to move paint around. He can make a surface glossy or sculptural; as inviting as a lolly shop or scary as an Ozploitation horror movie. Sometimes both at once. Ryan’s skill…
Rosella Namok, Sharonne Solk, Lyell Bary
16th February - 17th March
Fireworks Gallery
Three exhibitions open the 2018 program for FireWorks Gallery – now in its 25th year. Renowned Indigenous artist Rosella Namok (Cairns, Far North QLD) displays her gestural strokes in her Nature’s Way acrylic on canvas…
Outer Space Fundraiser Auction
9th March, 6:00 -10:00pm
Outerspace
Preview Outer Space’s new premises and bid on artworks by Australian artists, to help raise funds for this exciting new project in Brisbane’s West End. All funds raised will help open the doors of Outer…
UQ Architecture Lecture
27th March, 6:15 - 8:00pm
Asia Pacific Design Library
UQ Architecture lecture with James Legge. Are you passionate about all things architecture and design? The UQ Architecture lecture series will bring together cutting-edge architects and leading design thinkers who will bring new knowledge and…
Jordan Azcune & Liam Marsden: A Duel
16th March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
STABLE
A DUEL “I am quicker than you.” “I am smarter than you.” “But I am stronger than you.” “I make better art than you and you know it.” JORDAN AZCUNE & LIAM MARSDEN fight for…
Star-Crossed Rivers
23rd March, 5:30pm
River Quay Green - South Bank
Next Friday locals and tourists in South Bank can experience a free, family-friendly contemporary art performance thanks to the launch of Co-MMotion, Brisbane City Council’s new Temporary Art Program – a year-long series of live…
Monster Creative: Design Pop Up Shop
15th March, 5:30 - 9:00pm
Bib'n'Brace Collective
A monthly one night only showcase of handmade products from local Artists, Designers and Makers. Bib’n’Brace Collective: 95 Commercial Road, Teneriffe, Brisbane.
THE END OF THE WORLD
28th March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Wreckers Artspace
THE END OF THE WORLD is an exhibition of new multimedia/multidisciplinary work by Madeleine Stack and Romii Fulton-Smith. Consisting of sculpture, text, and installation, TEOTW brings art objects from both artists’ practices to a space…
Jarrod van der Ryken: To begin to hurt
10th - 24th March
Boxcopy ARI
“To begin to hurt” is an exhibition of new work by Brisbane-based artist Jarrod van der Ryken. Jarrod completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at the Queensland University of Technology in 2015 and…
In Conversation: Sam Cranstoun, Lincoln Austin and Judy Watson
28th March, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Museum of Brisbane
This In Conversation event, facilitated by Museum of Brisbane Director Renai Grace, is an opportunity to hear these artists give insight into what has shaped their respective artistic practices. Join us from 5:30pm to enjoy…
Peter Kozak and Aishla Manning: SOFT BLOW
7th April, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Kunstbunker
SOFT BLOW brings together new works by Kozak and Manning who both use everyday materials to explore complex emotional states and experiences. Using video and kinetic sculpture, the exhibition examines the potential for each works’…
First Thursdays: Digi Youth Arts
5th April, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Digi Youth Arts (DYA) takes over the IMA with performances responding to historical stories in the work of Ryan Presley and Fiona Foley. DYA Artistic Director Alethea Beetson constructs a series of roving performances, reflecting…
Tracey Moffatt: From the MAMA Collection
25th January - 17th March
University of the Sunshine Coast Gallery
Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most successful international artists, known for her film, photography and video works. Drawing on cinema, television and the media, her art is equally inspired by popular culture, recollections from…
Closing Event - Hannah Brontë
10th March, 2:00 - 5:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
To mark the closing of the first Green Screen presentation of 2018, hear from artist Hannah Brontë as she discusses her video work ‘Umma’s Tongue–molten at 6000°’, 2pm Saturday 10 March. The work is currently…
The Brian Tucker Collection: Auction
25th March, 5:00pm
Jan Manton Art
AUCTION Sunday 25th March 2018, 5.00pm The Johnson Hotel 477 Boundary Street, Spring Hill Qld 4000 VIEWING Thursday 22 March 11.00am – 5.00pm Friday 23 March 11.00am – 5.00pm Saturday 24 March 11.00am – 5.00pm…
Black Power Posters – Impact and Influence
8th March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Black Power posters created in the mid-twentieth century by Emory Douglas are among the most powerful and enduring visual images of protest and solidarity in the past century. They helped define a symbol of African…
Gallery Shop After Hours: Laura Armstrong
23rd March, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Join the IMA Gallery Shop from 6pm for the launch of local jewellery designer Laura Armstrong’s latest collection, ‘Submerged’. Laura Armstrong is a Brisbane-based silversmith and artist in residence at Bib’n’Brace Collective. From her studio in…
Gordon Shepherdson
13th February - 10th March
Philip Bacon Galleries
“His art is one of enduring and recurring themes, absorbed in a brooding and turbulent romanticism the origins of which are in many respects, traditional. It is possible to see Shepherdson’s vision as having a…
Elizabeth Shaw: Recycled Narratives
6th - 31st March
Woolloongabba Art Gallery
Recycled Narratives is an exhibition of contemporary jewellery and objects created by Elizabeth Shaw between 2012 and 2018. Many of the pieces have been exhibited internationally and this is the first time they have been…
Undergrowth
21st February - 18th March
Webb Gallery, QCA
Undergrowth is an invitational exhibition dedicated to showcasing some of the most innovative and conceptually coherent work being produced by undergraduate students in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Photography and Fine Art. These artists and works…
Clive Murray -White: Smokework
9th March, 5:45 - 6:00pm
UQ Art Museum
Please join us for the restaging of Clive Murray-White’s ‘Smokework’ (previously titled ‘Smokebomb sculpture’) 1971 on the lawn in front of the Forgan-Smith Tower, adjacent to the UQ Art Museum. ‘Smokework’ was originally presented at…
Magic Demonstration: Acid Money, Malin Nilsson
8th March, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Institute of Modern Art
Experience a one-of-a-kind live magic demonstration that conjures up the sleight-of-hand routinely used by actors on the financial market, performed by magician Malin Nilsson. For the past seven years artist duo Goldin+Senneby has worked with…
2018 Mayne Centre Lecture: Amelia Jones
14th March, 6:00 - 8:00pm
UQ Art Museum
‘In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance’ by Professor Amelia Jones. Feminist curator, theorist and historian of art and performance ‘In Between Subjects’ performs a critical genealogy of how “queer” and “performance” have interrelated…
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
11th March, 11:00am - 3:00pm
QCA, Griffith University
Less than 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women, and this gender imbalance has a profound effect on Wikipedia’s content. Join us for an afternoon of raising our digital voices and changing the stats. We will…
Live Performance: Amalia Pica - please open hurry
10th February - 10th March
Institute of Modern Art
See a live performance in the gallery of Amalia Pica‘s work, ‘In alphabetical order (Catalogue of great ape gestures)’ (2018), choreographed with and performed by dancer Michael Smith. In this piece, dancer Michael Smith interprets…







































































